UNIPART STRIKE ACTION

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: july/august 2018 :: RMTnews 6 R MT Unipart rail members took strike action last month in a battle over pay and conditions. RMT general secretary Mick Cash congratulated members for standing firm in rock solid action. "The company should wake up and take note of the anger on the shop floor over the attacks on pay and working conditions and should get back round the table and negotiate a deal that delivers workplace justice,” he said. E urostar station staff based at St Pancras took 24 hour strike action recently in a dispute over shocking and dangerous working conditions resulting from repeated service failures and breakdowns. The international terminal at St Pancras has been reduced to chaos, with staff left to bear the brunt of public anger, following a spate of service problems that have dumped thousands of passengers on the cramped concourse at St Pancras as the season heads towards its summer peak. RMT has repeatedly demanded action to improve conditions but with nothing tangible coming from Eurostar there is no option but to strike. RMT is also balloting train managers over the same issues and workers at the French end of the Eurostar operation have also registered their disgust at the appalling conditions and have taken action in an attempt to force the company to act. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said that conditions at St Pancras had been simply appalling with dangerous levels of overcrowding on the concourse as services plunge into meltdown on the cusp of the busiest part of the year. “RMT will not tolerate a position where our members are left to pick up the pieces due to corporate failures. “RMT is escalating this dispute with a ballot of train managers and it is now time for Eurostar to get their heads out of the sand, recognise the seriousness of the current situation and come forward with proposals that address the issues our members have been raising with them,” he said. EUROSTAR STRIKE STRIKE ACTION UNIPART